//Curriculum Update: Week of October 29 //

The spookiness has ended and we enter a new month of festivities!  Thank you for keeping  the costumes and candies at home.

We continued the study of fall activities as we expanded our pumpkin activities… cutting and opening up a pumpkin to learn its parts (stem, fibrous strands, seeds, pulp, leaves, rind), studying the life cycle of a pumpkin, and getting some practical lessons of tweezing and scrubbing a pumpkin. The children delight in these lessons and then practice on their own, using their fine-motor skills, concentration, order and coordination— all skills that will prepare them for real-life work. 

“The exercises of Practical Life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education" M. Montessori.